The editors of the University of Illinois Urbana-Chanpaign student newspaper who published the cartoons have been suspended until the university can conduct an “investigation” and fire them. Keep in mind that this was supposed to be an independant student newspaper.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0602150267feb15,1,741296.story?coll=chi-news-hed

The days when universities were places where differing ideas could be discussed without retribution are long over.

They haven’t “obeyed”. Bush bashing is the creed of most of the MSM. Get real. They simply don’t have access to the military base which the military has every right to restrict. Big difference.

The ban was reinstated in 1991.

Military censors instituted a virtual blackout of such photos in World War I. That ban continued until nearly the
end of World War II.

Ironic that the same MSM, who would love to have access to the pictures of the coffins to bash Bush, censored itself in showing pictures of people jumping out of the WTC as “too graphic”. God forbid that they are viewed as bashing the Islamofascists. Haven’t you noticed that each passing 9/11 anniversary has had less and less images and time devoted to it?

The MSM only comments on the Mohammed cartoons which they have no restriction in accessing unlike the coffins. Censoring the cartoons leaves the public with no context to judge for themselves. I like to form my own opinions with all of the facts presented to me. Isn’t it a service of the MSM to give people, like our courts to the jury, all of the facts?

Kudos to owl 1, Ravo, kat, penny, Patricia, Mike M, ct…and our host.
You know why I’ve stuck around here, Jeff. Continuing prayers for your good health.

F*** Islam.

Never forget:

The word ISLAM, translated = SUBMISSION.

I highly doubt the cult will survive this round of the ‘clash of civilizations’. We don’t plan to be submittin’ any time soon, now. And our MSM will retire to the La Brea Tarpits where they belong. How sad, really.

Here’s some spine: the college paper from the University of Illinois. http://www.dailyillini.com/media/paper736/news/2006/02/09/Opinions/Cartoons.As.Published.In.The.Danish.JyllandsPosten-1606534.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.dailyillini.com

Take a note, eh, U.S. MSM?

Anyway - if traditional media was more enthusiastic about getting the facts straight instead of offending people, it would be much more useful.
(sigh)

But God does not need man to punish or kill for Him. The Creator is fully capable of easily killing or punishing in a blink…should He so desire, without assistance from man.

I have seen and heard their filthy trash for decades. Now it is payback time

http://media.putfile.com/Taqiyya78

Like the media doesn’t offend someone, somewhere every day?

I’ll repeat again:

How the hell can you provide commentary on cartoons that you refuse to show as context - a necessary service to the audience so they can arrive at an informed opinion?

Somewhere a line should be drawn…

And who should draw it? The self-serving agenda and ratings driven commercial MSM? Amazing how some people readily give up their freedom of speech. The Russians have given it back to Putin. The state has taken back all of the TV stations with hardly a wimper from the populace. Not all people cherish free speech. Leftists sure as hell don’t.

This is about the right to free speech. It’s worth dying for. Not killing because you are offended. That’s the difference between Islam and us.

His entire life was based on showing that man’s way to God is not thru pride. Christians consider pride a source of most sin.

“The work of Muhammad is based on being honored and the work of Christ is based on being insulted. This produces two very different reactions to mockery.

Already in the Psalms the path of mockery was promised: “

“All who see me mock me; they make mouths at me; they wag their heads” (Psalm 22:7).

“He was despised and rejected by men . . . as one from whom men hide their faces . . . and we esteemed him not” (Isaiah 53:3).

“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account” (Matthew 5:11).

When the media lie about something as important as free speech or fear of intimidation, they lose it.

The absolute truth about this situation millions of posts all over the internet have failed to illuminate since this controversy began, has been aptly captured in those few sentences. Thank you Patricia.

Is that why they refused to print the pictures? I don’t think so! They print Piss Christ and Dung Mary, also offensive. They were afraid, for crying out loud, and I would be too!! What angers most of us is that they LIE about their fear and make excuse after excuse for these violent thugs whose only goal is to destroy free societies as well as the free press.

When the media lie about something as important as free speech or fear of intimidation, they lose it. It weakens democracy itself. That’s why the cartoons are important.

Now, back to our regular programming: bashing Bush. He won’t chop their heads off.

There was a similar debate about publishing photos of people jumping down from WTC, or photos of maimed bodies of dead Iraqis, behadings of hostages, etc. etc. Somewhere a line should be drawn - not everyone can process/interprete this info in a proper manner - understand what a huge tragedy 9/11 was, or how bad terrorists are, or what the realities of distant war are, for example.

The beauty of today’s media environment is that you can get almost any information deemed not appropriate by some channels, but deemed totally appropriate by others. So, as long as there’s a choice, I see no problem here. People are served well as long as they have choice, imo.

Sorry, I’m tired and am truly done in by the news of this day.

MSM’s spinelessness is as apparant as that of ONE BILLION so-called moderate Muslims.

Oh, did you know that an Egyptian paper, Al Faqr, printed all 12 cartoons in October, 2005, without even a hint of rampaging in response? If it’s so fatwahwable to show the craven image of Allah, how is it that MUSLIMS can do it with impunity? Google it, please, I don’t feel like providing the link. And did you know that the very Iranian paper which is organizing a Holocaust Cartoon Contest Also has images of Allah on it’s own web site? Again, google it. Sometimes I can deal with the lunacy of our world. But tonight, it just makes me feel ill as it is too effin’ sick to behold.

Right on and fight on, owl 1 and Ravo.

Ed, I couldn’t stand the thought of even clicking into your blog.

Good night, All. I surely hope tomorrow will be a better day.

What crap. You still don’t get it.

I’ll repeat what I said earlier:

How the hell can you provide commentary on cartoons that you refuse to show as context- a necessary service to the audience so they can arrive at an informed opinion?

Please don’t envoke the “sensivity” argument, the public isn’t buying that hypocrisy anymore. We’ve noticed how selectively it has been applied over the years by the media.

Every news organization has its own standards, when those come in conflict with readers or viewers, the audience should pick up another newspaper or turn the channel.

In other words ratings = standards. Trust me, the only ones that will be your viewers or readers will be the Islamofascists eventually. They will feel protected and right at home with the American MSM’s self-censorship on their behalf.

And ED..the stench of what YOU say would “knock a buzzard off an outhouse”!

None of the world’s other religions have condoned and committed violence in modern living history…none.

As far as the Crusades….leftists have rewritten history. The Crusades were in retaliation for the brutality and mayhem perpetrated upon them my the Islamics.

Robert asks that old leftist question…

Look around Robert …they’ve hated everybody - even each other — for centuries. They are taught to hate practically from the day they are born.

They’ll even snuff out the lives of their own small children in order to bite their enemies.

They expect the rewards in their afterlife for all this bloodshed they’ve committed to consist of a ” feast of riches and virgin slaves for neverending sexual exploits.

Hardly along the lines of most religions which “convey the idea that the afterlife is a spiritual place.

Answering your question Robert, even if an answer existed, wouldn’t change anything. Nothing short of our complete dhimmitude would, and then they’d still continue to to kill one another.